Word: visual
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture given last night at 61 Mt. Vernon street, Boston, by Mr. Richard Hodgson, consisted mainly of extracts from unpublished accounts of apparitions drawn from English sources. The visual phantasms of sane persons are divided into two classes-those of the living and those of the dead. Under the head of phantasms of the living are included visions of dying people. It has been supposed that all such visions can be accounted for by the theory that the spirit of the living person leaves its body and appears to others at a distance. This theory is difficult of belief, because...
...observations were entirely satisfactory, and although the cyclonic conditions had a tendency to produce a tremulousness in the upper atmosphere, disadvantageous to visual observations, this did not diminish the opportunities for photography...
There has been invented a new form of telescope object glass which can be transformed at will from a "photographic" to a "visual" lens by simply turning over the crown-glass lens and changing its distance from the flintglass lens. The Clarks have made for Professor Pickering a lens of this construction with an aperture of thirteen inches and a focal length of fifteen feet...
...blueness was looking in my direction. In short, our eyes met; they looked at each other; no - not exactly at each other; that would have been improper. They looked at a sort of middle point lying half-way on the straight line between them, the focal point where their visual rays converged. This of course was very harmless. Pretty soon they smiled, both pairs at the same time; but not at each other, only at the focal point. This certainly was unobjectionable. Unobjectionable? It was more; it was delightful...
...fate would have it, one of these families, consisting of father, mother, and three children, established itself in one of the seats between myself and the charmer, and very seriously interfered with the line of visual communication; in fact, shut off entirely from my view the two occupants of the seat behind...